Help sleeping

That's how I've done it since I could remember. I just set the timer on the tube and drift. For me, it diverts my mind from bouncing around to dozens of different subjects. I think that's why I have trouble sleeping with no television: I can't keep my mind focused on sleep.

 

I have had problems sleeping since I have been 10 years old (I'll be 53 in August). I know all of the old remedies and bromides - warm milk, don't read before bed, etc. With me, it's a question of it being difficult to go to sleep or impossible.

A couple of things:

1. See a doctor. Maybe they can prescribe something.
2. Somebody said when you take a pill (I can't remember it, but the name was on the thread) they feel lousy all day. That was the reason I was hesitant to take pills. A psychiatrist told me if you take the pills for two weeks, the sluggishness will go away.
3. Exercise is good, especially walking. I say walking because it addition to the health benefits, it can be relaxing for your mind and this might help with sleep.
4. I tried Tylenol PM several years ago, and thought they were effective. Then I bought the store brand in Wal-Mart and that didn't help. So I don't know.
5. The most effective medicine at helping me sleep wasn't even for sleeping. Everything I would get for a cough or whatever would caution me about causing drowsiness. Almost all of them didn't have that effect.
The best medicine I had to make me go to sleep was something I took for a nasty itch/rash I got from a reaction to shellfish. I also get something I think it was called something like Atarax, although that may have been the generic name. I haven't eaten shellfish in five years, but I used the medicine until it ran out. Like I say, it isn't prescribed for sleeping, but it worked well.

 

He asked twice and no one responded. And technically, I didn't explain, I just provided a link.

Last night I went to bed at 12:30, woke up at 3:30, fell back asleep at 4. Alarm went off at 7:45, went back to sleep at 9:30 and got up for good at about 12:30.

 

Magnesium is the answer.

I have used it and it helps you sleep and sleep well. If you have problems sleeping for a solid eight (or however many) hours, it will help too.

Added bonus: Because of the extra uninterrupted REM sleep, you will have crazy, vivid dreams. In a good way.

Just take a magnesium supplement in the evening. Trust me.

 

1. No soft drinks after 9 p.m.
2. Exercise

I've tried Ambien, and it's good stuff. The morning grogginess you will feel goes away pretty quickly.

 

Here's a typical night for me: Fall asleep about 6:30 a.m., wake up about 9:15, go back to sleep, wake up about 9:45, go back to sleep, wake up about 10:15, go back to sleep, wake up about 11:30, go back to sleep, wake up about noon, go back to sleep, wake up about 12:30, go back to sleep, wake up about 1, go back to sleep, wake up about 1:15, go back to sleep, wake up about 1:30 and usually stay up.

 

During the school year I basically wake up every half hour, for at least a few minutes, and at least one or two of those will be for 20 minutes or more.

It sucks.

It's better when school's out, but it's still not normal.

 

I have problems staying asleep as well. I like Ambien, when I can get a prescription or free samples from my PCP. I'm a regular Tylenol PM user. Somtimes I will augment those with Benedryl. I used to squirrel away vicodin and percosets from my various surgeries, but I'm now out. I could very easily become addicted to either of those, if given the opportunity.

Of course, I do everything you're not supposed to do....lights are on, TV is on, drink diet pepsi, etc. etc. so it's hard to feel very sorry for me.

 

Pallister: Some people never are able to adjust to an odd schedule. I don't know why, but I know it happens.

 

ok, my bad.

 

Try Goody's PM.

I have trouble falling asleep and then trouble staying asleep. I'll sleep about an hour and wake up like I just slept several. A while later I'll fall asleep again, only to wake up again. I feel like I'm too bored to sleep. But when I take the Goody's PM, they knock me out cold and I usually sleep until the alarm wakes me up.

Back when the cough syrups had the good stuff in them. They'd knock me out so long as I tried to go to sleep. But if I didn't try, or if something ended up waking me up, I'd be in that same too bored to sleep boat.

 

Nyquil: The nighttime coughing, sniffling, sneezing how the fuck did I end up on the kitchen floor medicine?